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Papers

(The median citation count of Career Development International is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking hidden barriers: an overview and a research agenda on career challenges for disadvantaged men	56
Self-goal setting as a way to career sustainability: exploring the roles of career crafting and perceived organizational goal clarity	43
Homefront fuel for career growth: the role of career crafting and work–life balance	43
Women’s need for mentorship across non-linear career paths: voices of Indian women employees	37
A person-centered perspective on entrepreneurial success: combining proactive behavioral strategies across various life domains	36
Uncovering the antecedents and motivational determinants of job crafting	26
Be a boundaryless good guy! How job embeddedness mediates and organizational identification moderates the associations of boundaryless career attitude with extra-role behaviours	26
From family to fortune: the dual impact of family-friendly policies and ethical work climate on employee career success	25
The effect of parents’ support, protean career orientation and self-perceived employability on the school-to-work transition	25
No person is an island: how employees attribute and react to coworkers' approach crafting	24
How job resources enhance employee marketability: a dual mediation model of work engagement and job crafting with work orientation as a moderator	23
Happy, and they know it? The roles of positive affectivity, intrinsic motivation and network building on LinkedIn on employment predictions	20
To serve (or not) Gen Z employees to positively influence their responses to organizational change?	20
Interprofessional subjective experiences of EDI in a virtual healthcare working group: a collaborative ethnography	18
Fostering calling in the leader–member exchange: individual and team-level effects	18
A comparative study of the work–life balance experiences and coping mechanisms of Nigerian and British single student-working mothers	18
Cultural identity changes of academics in the context of war	17
Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect	17
Understanding career-meaningfulness and work centrality to serve customers: servant leadership and customer-oriented boundary-spanning behaviors	16
Minimizing the experience of career inaction: the roles of organizational developmental HRM and visionary leadership via employee thriving at work	16
A dual-pathway model for examining the effects of customer mistreatment on an employee's customer-directed counterproductive work behavior: can job autonomy make a difference?	16
Career crafting for personal brand equity: optimizing sustainability and prosocial behaviors with development i-deals	15
Institutional boundary conditions and the perceived viability of entrepreneurial careers: a gendered configurational analysis	14
A qualitative exploration of initial career orientation construction during the school-to-work transition	14
Supporting clients through career shocks: metaphorical thinking, scenario-based role play, and career narratives	14

Artificial intelligence opportunity perception and career sustainability: the mediating role of personal knowledge management	13
Self-initiated expatriation: a career perspective through a social chronology lens	13
Mapping the foundations and evolution of career aspiration research: a bibliometric analysis	13
Surviving limbo: critical career capital aspects for entrepreneur immigrants in an extreme context	13
The search for greener pastures: a qualitative analysis of employee job search dynamics	12
Academic independent directors in China: factors influencing career decision-making	12
Competency development opportunities and organizational citizenship behaviors: the mediating role of subjective career success	12
Why employees engage in proactive career behavior: examining the role of family motivation	11
Evolving as an entrepreneur: a life story approach to studying Indian women entrepreneurs	11
Employee development and employee engagement: a review and integrated model	11
How workers construct a sense of positive occupational identity in a contested emerging profession: the case of career coaches	10
A scoping review of the academic career literature: guidelines for future research	10
The effect of proactive job search motivation profiles on job search quality in the school-to-work transition	10
Is intuition better than rationality? The effect of pre-decisional strategy on occupational interest forecasting in Chinese college students	10
Mothers' job crafting and work-to-family enrichment: a self-concept perspective	10
Editorial: Looking forward to 2025: editorial from the co-editors-in-chief	10
Does social media use always lead to negative career results? The role of growth mindset	9
Spillover and crossover effects of social support through work-family balance: a time-lagged analysis in Italian dyads	9
Living one’s calling independently: the role of online labor platforms for different dynamics of calling enactment	9
Revisiting mindsets for careers research: what we know, what we don’t and why we should care	9
Crafting in the face of ostracism: when does coworker ostracism foster employee job crafting and innovative work behavior?	9
Do my accents matter? Examining the relationship between English language teachers’ linguistic profiling and career development	9
A career-lifespan perspective on strengths utilization at work	8
Reducing linguistic profiling of individuals with communication disabilities to enhance careers: avoiding assumptions based on speech, language and communication mode	8
Editorial: Introducing the new practitioner insights section at career development international	8
Job resourcefulness, job crafting and task performance in a post-COVID-19 context: a diary study on tour and travel frontline employees	8
Career development of autistic employees – a scoping review	8
Precarious employment amidst global crises: career shocks, resources and migrants' employability	8
Accent modification and workplace accentism: the institutionalization of linguistic profiling and its career implications	8
Guest editorial: Positive careers research: where do we go from here?	8
Career enhancement strategies, supportive work relationships and subjective career success: the moderating role of family–work conflict	7
Beyond the call of duty: exploring early career nurses’ mobility ambitions and commitment in the face of workplace challenges	7
The role of agentic disposition and orientation on the career competencies of graduating students: a four-country study	7
When work context limits opportunities for career sustainability: insights from people diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood	7
(Re)Framing sustainable careers: toward a conceptual model and future research agenda	7
“There’s no escape”: a qualitative analysis of the workplace experiences of menopausal women working in low-paid roles	7
Called to stay? The moderating roles of feedback from others and role clarity in the relationship between experiencing a calling and organizational embeddedness	7
Mediating roles of employee cynicism and workplace ostracism on the relationship between perceived organizational politics and counterproductive work behavior	6
Masculinity contest culture is associated with less access to, and knowledge of, mental health benefits	6
A critical conceptual framework for understanding career development in linguistically diverse individual and organizational contexts	6
Academic women’s careers and the motherhood penalty: intersectional challenges in the Arab Middle East	6
From personal resources to proactive work strategies and performance: testing the antecedents and outcomes of strengths use in a three-wave study	5
Reconstruction work awaits: work identity in the aftermath of health-related career shock	5
Green futures: exploring perceptions, motivations and barriers to green career choices	5
Incivility experienced by immigrants struggling with acculturation: exploring buffering effects of holding behaviors by mentors	5
Plural masculinities at work: generational cohorts, organizational culture and men’s work–life choices	5
The influence of linguistic profiling on perceived employability: a new application of the systems theory framework of career development	5
Career empowerment: a qualitative exploratory investigation of perceived career control	5
The dark side of work-life policies: the influence of co-workers taking childcare leave on work anxiety	5
Look busy do nothing: does professional isolation and psychological strain of overqualified employee leads to goldbricking behaviour?	5

A little support goes a long way? How and when perceived organizational support fosters career sustainability	5
How do scholars with calling navigate the path to sustainable careers: a career construction perspective	5
The multilevel intelligent career framework: an exploration and application to skilled migrants	4
11 topics among 7,591 employability research abstracts (1942–2024): a structural topic model and call for interdisciplinary perspectives	4
“Follow the leader”: how inclusive leaders inspire followers to perform well through strengths use	4
When exit brings reentry: the mediating roles of career adaptability and person–entrepreneurship fit	4
Influence of relational learning and job autonomy in associations between social capital resources and newcomer adjustment: a moderated mediation study	4
Career competencies: a meta-analysis of their antecedents and outcomes	4
Transnational sensemaking narratives of highly skilled Canadian immigrants' career change	4
Career sustainability of digital micro-entrepreneurs: strategic insights from YouTubers in India	4
The shape of careers in the future workplace: extreme scenarios and their prospect impact	4
Building a sustainable career during the initial transition to work: a multiple-stakeholder perspective on proactive behaviors and contextual factors	4
How do German and French expatriates develop social networks?	4
How knowledge sharing affects career adaptability: roles of knowledge depth, self-efficacy and reflective thinking	4
Leader's desire for promotion, workplace anxiety and exploitative leadership: the moderating effect of Machiavellianism	4
Unraveling psychological processes underlying (un)realized work-to-work transitions: a qualitative study	4
The holding pattern of the worker Bs: how bifurcation of consciousness impacts female academic career progression	4
Navigating uncertainty: managing up as a solution to role ambiguity with positive effects on work engagement	4
Are we talking about the same thing? The case for stronger connections between graduate and worker employability research	3
How do mentors influence the career satisfaction of protégés: dual processing mechanism of cognition and emotion	3
Promoting sustainable career development via organisational support: autoethnographic insights from a late diagnosed autistic practitioner	3
Celebrating 30 years of Career Development International: nine key topics among 1,186 abstracts (1996–2025)	3
How to engage and retain employed students	3
Is short measure a big problem? A meta-analytic comparison of career adaptability measures	3
“The good, the bad and the ugly” of career advancement experiences of female management accountants in Ghana	3
Navigating career insecurity: resource-based interventions for practitioners	3
Self-directed career management in sustainable remote career ecosystems	3
Exploring the impact of family financial support withdrawal on graduates’ school-to-work transition	3
Motivational drivers and psychological detachment in shaping the work–home interface for Saudi women	3
The career impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal examination using the kaleidoscope career model	3
From vision to action: how future work self shapes proactive career behaviors through exploration	3
Maintaining job crafting over time: joint effect of autonomy and career support from family and friends	3
Sustainable career experiences in remote and hybrid work: a qualitative study in a small island developing state	3
Artificial intelligence usage at work: understanding dual self-regulation mechanisms and goal orientation in career growth	3
Proactive personality, future time perspective and career resources as predictors of retirement intentions: a serial mediation	2
The antecedents and outcomes of career optimism: a meta-analysis	2
Trait gratitude and subjective career success: the mediating roles of growth mindset and network breadth	2
Building the employability chain: a time-lagged study on the role of career self-management and organizational career management for employability development	2
How STEM women achieve objective career success through networking: a competence signal perspective	2
Do newcomers with high political skill benefit more from the formal mentoring program?	2
Motherhood enrichment in leadership: exploring top female executives in Spain	2
Balancing act: how family identity orientation impacts careers of NCAA women coaches	2
“Locked at the job”: a qualitative study on the process of this phenomenon	2
Employability skills of the next generation of Chinese factory workers	2
The unsustainable nature of the career ecosystem of autistic individuals in Brazil	2
Pursuing a sustainable career: how strengths-based leadership develops career adaptability and compensates for protean career orientation	2
Protean career orientation as a compass for career development in the digital age	2
Educational pursuits in career development: implications for individual stress	2
Navigating a double school-to-work transition: how do Chinese graduate students decide where to start their careers after studying abroad?	2
Exploring the enablers and barriers for women pilots in Australian commercial aviation	2
Linguistic profiling and career development through the lived experience of service sector employees in Pakistan	2
What does expatriate success mean? Developing a comprehensive definition through a systematic literature review	2
Be engaged in work, don’t feel work stress! The interaction effects of daily positive affect and supervisor calling	2
Supervisor career future time perspective and employee career commitment: the roles of team goal orientation and knowledge sharing	2
Determinants and consequences of job crafting under the boundary conditions of work uncertainty	2
Chinese women’s entrepreneurial career choices: exploring factors	2
Publisher’s Note	2
Transnational education, labor market outcomes and graduate employability: a scoping review	2
Enablers and drivers of contemporary careers: a qualitative inquiry	2
Do work stressors facilitate or impede job crafting? The role of employee trait and work regulatory focus	2